Feb 28, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Comeback printer 〜 Newsletter leaf journal CCLXIX Leafy intro Welcome to the 269th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...
Feb 27, 2026 from The Autodidacts We don’t know until the end, and it’s never the end Judging a book by its content doesn’t work either
Feb 27, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The ‘Firefly’ Tease? Nathan Fillion continues to tease something on the Instagram page for the Once We Were Spacemen podcast he hosts with Alan Tudyk. Having once been for a long time the enthusiasm crusher in Firefly ...
Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social From Thunar to PCManFM I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as m...
Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-27-26 Welcome to edition four of my Pook-Emu Bee links of the day. Pokemon turns 30 today (although as an American, its birthday from my perspective is September 28, 1998), so we will need some links for...
Feb 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Grokipedia Cites to My Anime Review I checked the top NLJ backlinks on Ahrefs (the limited free selection). I saw Grokipedia: I understand that Grokipedia is the X AI answer to Wikipedia. While I have some documented issues with Wiki...
Feb 27, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Your Land Is Mostly Mountainous Here’s a thing I learned this week. Out of the hundreds of different reasons a Kaiser doctor might send you for a surgical consult, only three cannot be addressed over a phone call or telehealth se...
Feb 26, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Rationalising hatred and dissecting it away from internalised hatred/self-hatred. I had a short chat with my sister and mother, and as my mother finished braiding my hair, the conversation fell like a stone into my pond of self-hatred, creating ripples. Rationalising hatred and ...
Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-26-26 Posting links for the third edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Maduro’s Ouster Creates Existential Crisis for Lukashenka (Dmitry Bolkunets for Jamestown Foundation. February 25,...
Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Early Flaw With Tuta Calendar-Thunderbird Integration Tuta Calendar’s Thunderbird plugin opens Tuta in a webapp in Thunderbird. With my set-up at least, I cannot stay signed in. That is a bit of an annoyance when I have 2FA set up. Early Flaw With Tut...
Feb 26, 2026 from BEEW If You Can Keep It (One Citizen's Response to the State of the Union) Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not ex...
Feb 26, 2026 from BEEW If You Can Keep It Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not ex...
Feb 26, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Changes To My ‘One a Month Club’ Tip Jar If you’ve been tipping me as part of One a Month Club (thank you, if so), you should have seen your recurring payment canceled by me at some point over the last several weeks. It had been operating...
Feb 26, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Freeing The Portland Locality Zone Earlier this month, I exhaustively detailed my efforts to understand why usTLD Locality Support at GoDaddy has insisted for three years that the City of Portland needs to approve any domain registr...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social What is the YandoriRSSBot? I just happened to have my NLJ logs open (I had opened them when the site was slow for a moment). I saw something called the YandoriRSSBot requesting the NLJ ATOM feed. While not unprecedented, alm...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-25-26 It is time for more daily links in the second edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review (Nicholas A. Ferrell at The New Leaf Journal. February 25, ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird. I have a cheap Tuta account (so cheap it is no longer available, thank you grandfathering) t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d' | tr -d "\n" | xsel -i -b && xdotool sleep 0.5 key "ctrl+v" Isn’t it a beauty? ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts Paste clipboard contents in places where you can’t paste Use AutoKey send_keys() to put clipboard content places where it can't normally be put
